Stories from Monday, March 6, 1995

Transelectric Inc. of Jackson isn't a big manufacturing company, but one of its products will be big on the national scene this summer. A magnetic-base emergency car lamp, which plugs into the cigarette lighter of vehicles, is among 20 of Missouri's "Most Promising Products," and will be showcased for national sales during a prime-time television broadcast by QVC Inc. in May...

Jim Masters, co-owner of M & H Pallet Co. of Cape Girardeau, is surrounded by finished pallets his company builds from old pallets. Mike Hellman, co-owner of M & H Pallet Co., operated a pallet disassembler. Boards in good condition are reused to build a new pallet...

The Cape Girardeau City Council hasn't changed its tune, but its tempo when it comes to regulating strip-tease bars and other adult businesses. Two weeks ago, the council indicated it would vote tonight on a measure to strictly regulate and license such businesses...

JACKSON -- All the publicity surrounding the opening of two strip-tease nightclubs in Cape Girardeau prompted several area towns, including Scott City and Sikeston, to adopt laws regulating semi-nude dancing. Now it's Jackson's turn, and aldermen tonight will consider a measure that would require $100 permits to work in an adult entertainment business, force such businesses into industrial zones and prohibit tipping the performers...

Redistricting meetings will be held tonight at each Cape Girardeau elementary school to gather suggestions from parents on how best to redraw elementary school boundary lines or reorganize elementary grades. The meetings all begin at 7 p.m. and should last until 8:30. Principals at each school will conduct the meetings, which will all follow the same format...

CARUTHERSVILLE -- "Boat's a coming 'round the bend." That will be the cry of Caruthersville and Aztar Corp. officials Thursday when the "City of Caruthersville" riverboat makes its first appearance in Southeast Missouri. The riverboat, which will make its journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers from Jeffersonville, Ind., will house the Casino Aztar, a gambling operation in downtown Caruthersville...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "How do you feel about people who don't stand up while the National Anthem is being played at a sporting event?" Sloan Tuschhoff, Jackson "They're not showing respect for the country, a country to which our forefathers came and strived to make a new life for them and the freedom that we have. I know there are a lot of things that are not as good as they could be, but we are always striving to do better."...

Jeanne Livers, a graduate of St. Mary Cathedral Catholic School, has been named a 1995 National Catholic Elementary School Distinguished Graduate. She graduated in 1972 and is a math consultant for the Missouri education department. She also graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University...

IN HER Feb. 25 column, Heidi Nieland wrote in part that her senior year in high school "was the absolute worst." She went on to write that she hated her classes and implied she was disliked by most of her peers. I'm no psychoanalyst, but Heidi was probably suffering from excess repression, reflected in an unwillingness to express what she really felt or thought. ...

YOUR EDITORIAL about Bob Griffin in Tuesday's paper is pretty funny. First it's funny because you suggest that he should step down because you think there is a federal investigation. The federal government has never said that there is an investigation. ...

Kimberly A. Westrich of Scott City and Jillian L. Loucks of Chaffee have received Regents' scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1995-96 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class and who have achieved an ACT score of 27 or SAT score of 1,130. ...

Southeast Missouri State University student Gabe Hinkebein finished second among 33 competitors in impromptu speaking at the Southwest Baptist University Speech Tournament in Bolivar recently. Impromptu speakers are given a proverb or quotation and then must deliver a five-minute, serious speech on the subject...

The Trinity Lutheran School cheerleaders recently won a first-place trophy at the Scott City Tournament. Members of the squad are seventh-graders Elizabeth Meyr, Kim Griffaw, Ashley McElreath, Jennifer Daume and Ramsey Stevens; and eighth-graders Courtney Haman, Sara Boren, Jessica Simms and Nikia Perdue...

Michael L. Higgins of Cape Girardeau received a Boy's State Leadership Award to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1995-96 academic year. The award is a $300 one-time award given to beginning freshmen who have attended Boy's State and who have an ACT composite score of 22 and a 3.0 grade-point average after six or seven high school semesters...

The Jacksonian Charter Chapter of the American Business Women's Association is taking applications for scholarships for the fall semester. To qualify, candidates must be a resident of Cape Girardeau County, and maintain a grade point average of 2.5...

Nine Cape Girardeau teachers were among more than 600 educators attending the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's eighth annual Write to Learn Conference held in February. Featured speakers for the conference were Missouri author Vicki Grove, writing teacher Barry Lane, lecturer Dr. Donald Bartlette and Walt Disney 1991 teacher of the year Edward Schroeder...

SCOTT CITY -- John S. Flynn of Scott City has received a President's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1995-96 academic year. The President's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who rank at least in the upper 20 percent of their high school class and score 24 on the ACT or 1,010 on the SAT. The scholarships also are awarded to students who are their class valedictorian and complete the core curriculum. The scholarship is worth $1,200 per academic year...

Agenda Monday, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings Request of Richard and Carla Knaup to rezone 134 and 136 S. Pacific from residential to commercial, and for a special use permit for a greenhouse. Request of St. Vincent de Paul Church for a special use permit for an addition at 741 Forest...

SIKESTON -- Jewell R. Hinkle, 80, of Sikeston died Sunday, March 5, 1995, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 11, 1914, in Hailwell, Ky., the son of Dave and Etta Mae Thomas Hinkle. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army. ...

ANNA, Ill. -- Wherever members of The Great Boars of Fire gather you can expect fun, friendship, good times and great food. Described as a small group from the hills of Southern Illinois, by head chef Dave Fombelle, the Great Boars of Fire was founded four years ago when a group formed to participate in an Irish Stew contest...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Don J. Boatwright Jr., 41, died Saturday, March 4, 1995, at Pemiscot Memorial Hospital in Hayti. He was born March 15, 1953, in Gideon, the son of Don Boatwright of Wardell and the late Mary Crafton Boatwright. He married Donna Baldwin on July 25, 1975, in Marston...

SCOTT CITY -- Ruth Warner, 90, of Scott City died Sunday, March 5, 1995, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

MORLEY -- Mary "Darlene" Shipman, 45, of Morley died Saturday, March 4, 1995, at her home. She was born Sept. 29, 1949, at Sikeston, the daughter of the late Floyd Harvey and Edith Pyatt Harvey Adams. She married Charles Wesley Shipman Jr. April 11, 1977 in Sikeston...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Clara Davis, 90, of East Prairie died Sunday, March 5, 1995, in the East Prairie Nursing Center following an extended illness. She was born Feb. 23, 1905, in Mississippi County, the daughter of James Henry and Josephine Irby Thrower. In 1924, she married Lillard Dee Davis, who preceded her in death on Sept. 20, 1965...

PERRYVILLE -- Ernst B. Oswald, 87, of Perryville died Saturday, March 4, 1995, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born Aug. 2, 1907, the son of Bernard and Rosa Hemman Oswald. On May 31, 1935, he married Verna Hacker. He was a retired welder for the General Motors Corporation and formerly was a member of United Auto Workers. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Glenn Ury, 98, of Jonesboro died Sunday, March 5, 1995, at the Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born May 2, 1896, in Jonesboro, the son of Sidney and Alice Rinehart Ury. On Sept. 6, 1914, he married Ruth Lyerly in Murphysboro. She preceded him in death Jan. 19, 1962. He later married Clara Miller in Jonesboro in 1963, and she also preceded him in death...

ANNA, Ill. -- Gladys Hudgens, 82, of Anna died Sunday, March 5, 1995, at Union County Hospital in Anna. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Anna.

ST. LOUIS -- H.L. Hitt, 81, formerly of Morley, died Sunday, March 5, 1995, in St. Louis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Baumann Funeral Home in Overland. He is survived by a brother, John Van Hitt of Oak Ridge.

Thanks in large part to the provisions of a law enacted in 1989 by the General Assembly, it is now possible for taxpayers all around the state to finance civic improvements in a community where residents are required to pay absolutely nothing. A case in point is a series of improvements being proposed by the city of Springfield, including a wildlife museum that is designed to enhance a commercial business, which will be funded almost exclusively by all Missouri taxpayers, with most local contributions coming from "projected tax revenue" from the improvements.. ...

Just as the doors have opened on the 1996 presidential race, so are state prognosticators gearing up for Missouri's gubernatorial race. One name that has been mentioned is familiar to Southeast Missouri. Charles Kruse, a Dexter native who still owns the 600-acre, four-generation family farm in Stoddard County, leads an organization that some feel has the greatest political clout in the state: the Missouri Farm Bureau. The bureau has about 82,000 member families...

America's legal system guarantees speedy justice for the accused. But what about the victims of crime? They, too, deserve resolution in a reasonable period of time. Ten years have passed since Jerome Mallet shot and killed Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper James Froemsdorf. And a decade later, no resolution is in sight. Sarah Froemsdorf, the trooper's widow, says her family can't move on until Mallett's fate is finally decided...

Regular Meeting March 6, 7:30 p.m. Power and Light Committee Appoint director and alternate to the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission. Determine the intent of the city of Jackson to reimburse itself for certain capital expenditures...

Local Lutheran schools are celebrating national Lutheran Schools week this week with activities each day. Today, Trinity Lutheran School in Cape Girardeau and St. Paul Lutheran School from Jackson will hold a joint chapel service at the Jackson church...

BENTON -- Formal discussions on Scott and New Madrid counties' joint operation of a new Enhanced 911 Emergency Response System have been cut off. The discussion is stalled as Scott City and Scott County wrangle over a contract the two entities signed prior to the Nov. 8 election...

SCOTT CITY -- Participants in Scott City's Buy Local Week this week think the annual event helps bind the community together. This fourth annual campaign is sponsored by the Scott City High School chapter of the Future Business Leaders of America and the Scott City Chamber of Commerce...

James B. Wilson, vice president of Jim Wilson Co., 2100 Themis, Cape Girardeau, and head of the company's tire department, has been elected president of Summit Tire Corp., a national tire distributing company headquartered in Tampa, Fla. Jim Wilson Co., an employee-owned company, is a customer of Summit Tire Corp...

Spartech Corp. has announced a monthlong share repurchase program. Through March investors with 50 shares or less may sell their shares back to the company for $6.25 per share, without paying any brokerage commissions. Spartech President and Chief Executive Officer Bradley B. Buechler said the company is "attempting to reduce the costs involved with administering shareholder accounts" through this offer. The company currently spends about $15 annually to administer each investor's account...